Canadian Trans Sitcom “The Switch” Crosses U.S. Border

Popular Canadian sitcom The Switch, billed as “the world’s first scripted television show with a trans lead,” will soon be available in the U.S. via VOD and digital platforms.

The Switch is a six-episode half-hour sitcom about Sü, a woman who gets fired from her job in the U.S. after coming out as trans and decides to start her life over in Vancouver. The show finds humor in topics such as hormone shopping, gender-alignment surgery, and threat of deportation.

“Meet some intriguing folks you might glimpse at the bus stop and not usually think twice about,” reads an official synopsis for the show. “Each is coming out of their cocoon, but what’s emerging and how will the world deal with them?”

“How do we make and deliver transgender media that doesn’t suck?” creator and showrunner Amy Fox wrote in a recent HuffPost essay. “So we decided to make a show that actually reflected our lives… plus a bunch of stuff we made up.”